NO AIDJOR NOSE
let’s pack up and go to
California
Science Unable to Improve Hu*
man Sense of Smell.
“ W in ter’s Summer Garden”
Really, In That Field, the Leading
Thinkers of the World Ara Com
pletely Baffle a— Anyway, Would
Knowledge Be Desirable?
Sooner or later everyone goes to California where the
bright warm sunshing greets you; where the delightful
climate, the sweet scented flowers and the lure o f the
sea welcomes you to this lamd o f beaut.i and charm.
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M r. B a r n e s , U. S. W h e a t D i r e c t o r S a y s :
“Eat More
Bread
A n d r e d u c e the high co st o f l i v i n g . ”
Holsum Bread
IS T H E C H E A P E S T A S W E L L A S T H E M O S T
W H O L E S O M E FO O D ON T H E M A R K E T.
B U Y TH A T
E X T R A LO A F
Y o u r G r o c e r has it
Cherry City Baking Co.
Hordes of tiny toilers are working
In our service night and day to keep
the world wholesome and all the races
of beings supplied with life stuff.
SALADS, SOME OLD, SOME NEW .
O-rkshlrc Salad.— Mix two cupfuls
of cold rlced potatoes with one cupful
of peach meats cut in bits. Marinate
with French dressing and serve In n
mound o f watercress and garnish with
halves o f pecans—
Serve overlapping slices of tomato
and cucumber, sprinkled with chopped
onion. Serve with French dressing.
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For any other meal except break
fast salads are a welcome part of any
menu.
Vegetable Sal
a d .— Chop
four
large cucumbers,
one small onion
and two table
spoonfuls of pars
ley, mix well, with
mayonnaise and
stuff tomatoes with the mixture thus
prepared.
'
Brunswick Salad.— T o one and one-
half cupfuls o f flnrty cut celery add
one cupful of shredded cabbage and
one cupful o f nut meats. Moisten with
Boiled Dressing.— Rent into the yolks
of seven eggs four tablespoonfuls of
olive oil, then add one-half cupful of
melted butter, the Juice o f one lemon,
three teaspoonfuls o f salt, one-half
cupful of vinegar, one tablespoonful
of sugar mixed with one-half teaspoon-
ful of mustard. Cook all together un
til mixture coats the spoon.
I > r • V
AAW
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
A tost opportunity
finds Its way back.
seldom
Gossip Is a deadly gas that
is often fatal to friendship.
A woman who has no dia
monds considers them vulgar.
The dog who speaks with Its
tall Is something o f a wag.
When It comes to selecting a
w ife
some men are easily
pleased.
Death Is frequently the re
sult o f a man’s effort to make
a living.
Several people have bumped
up against disgrace while try
ing to dodge poverty.
TAKES
PICTURES
BY
WIRE
World Is Now More Open.Minded In
It* Reception of New
Inventions.
A Frenchman has Just telephoned a
photograph a distance o f 350 miles,
from Lyons to Parts, and his govern
ment lots assigned him an experiment
al station. The French nation and
the world are awaiting developments.
How different the reception o f In
ventions In these days I d contrast to
the past, observes the Boston Globe.
It was not many years ago that the
Inventor was looked upoD as a servant
o f Old Nick. He had to fight a world
o f superstition, with backward look
ing forces seeking to destroy him. At
best he was thwarted— people pointed
at their heads wl.Fu he strolled along
the street, and his machine became a
“ folly." In consequence the Inventor
usually went to his grave a pauper,
If not a martyr, and years drifted by
hefcie his work became useful to man
kind
home time ago there was held I d
England a “ Wonders of Science Ex-
hlbltloo" u h Lli served to reveal many
marvels to the public unfamiliar with
the work done with the microscope,
the microphone and the micrograph.
The microphone magnifies sound as
the microscope does things seen. The
micrograph Is the instrument used by
the scientist In taking pictures of
things shown by the microscope. More
people are familiar, to some extent,
with the microscope than with the
The open-mindedness o f the present
microphone. They know It Is possi
ble to hear a fly walk or a cater era of science and Its rewards Is il
lustrated best by our attitude toward
pillar crawl.
Unuy other wonders o f science were men of Imagination und new Ideas.
shown at Surbiton, but neither there When wireless was Invented only a
nor anywhere else has science demon few years ago the minds o f men Im
strated Its ability to help the sense mediately Jumped to it. Hardly had
of smell. It can do marvels for sight, the first tick been sent by wireless
bearing and touch, but not for the telegraph, than up sprouted the wire
humble and useful nose. In that field less telephone, nnd now navigation by
the accomplishments o f science have wireless at sea, over und under the
water. This month a battle ship will
been nil.
Let a man stand two miles,, say, to go down Chesapeake bay, without a
windward of the point where a herd man on board, controlled by electric
of caribou will cross an open plain current handled by a man on shore.
over which a fresh breeze Is sweeping All these devises ore the work o f less
and It must be apparent that only a d than a decade. Minds o f men seem
Infinitely minute particle o f whatever to be ready to bob up from the pil
matter may be given off from his body lows o f the past at the song o f the
or clothing can possibly reach the nos lark.
Just before the beginning o f the
trils o f any one deer In the herd. Vet,
If the man Is completely screened from century Mr. H. G. Wells painted what
sight by a rise In the surface o f the was regarded as a highly Imaginative
ground the caribou will nevertheless picture o f a man at home enjoying a
catch the taint In the air. They would drama reproduced completely, sight
be warned of the presence of a w olf I d i and sound. Our open-mindedness to-
ward new Inventions results In their
the same way.
Yet science Is utterly unable to de- | blessing us with raplrl improvements.
tect anything which the olfactory If this mental receptivity which we
nerve o f the deer senses and Identifies. seem to have In scientific matters
It cannot see with a microscope any could he extended to the realm o f our
thing In the air which came from the political and social experimentation,
man. It cannot find any such sub the harvest might be even richer In
stance with a chemical test o f any beueflts to the race.
kind. Instead o f aiding the sense of
smell. It Is entirely Incapable o f match
Why Cities Grow.
ing 1L Here Is another realm for
A natural human desire to elude the
science to Invade and subdue; but divine mandate, "In the sweat o f thy
would the conquest be altogether de fnce shall thou eat bread.” has always
sirable? It ts a question whether the
average man needs to smell more
things or sense more acutely the
things he smells already. It Is thought
that the gains would not offset the
losses under the prevailing conditions
o f life.
been the sea? o f many our earTTdy trou
bles. As Inte-pretcit to menn the kind
o f perspiration that accompanies till*
lug the soil. It may account for many
abandoned farms and the swarming
emigration o f the agricultural popula
tion to the cities— where. Indeed, the
sweating doesn’t stop, hut Is In thou
sands o f instances greatly stayed.
On the farm physical exertion well-
nigh reaches Its inuximuni. Stripped
for the struggle with nature, reduced
to the merest remnant of clothing, the
gladiatorial combat Is curried on.
There .ire no fat farmers, unless
they become “ landed proprietors" and
have delegated all violence o f labor to
other hands. It Is the cry from Mace
donia now, that the hired man Is no
longer to he hired ; and all the rack
ing toll o f the farm descends upon one
hapless pair ^of shoulders; no one Is
to be hud fo r love or money, to share
it.
The rendering o f the soil into na
ture’s hands is quite accountable. And
when the rewards o f easier employ
ment in the city are so great, even par
tial dependence on a sense of conscien
tious self-sacrifice Is not to be expect
ed.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Was W ell Fixed.
One o f the churches in a western
town Is so fortunate as to have a
young woman us P ■ ;,"s 'r r
She was
called to Ihe door of the parsonage
one day, and saw there a much embar
rassed young farmer o f the Swedish
j type.
“ They said the minister lived In this
I
house,” he rtaminered.
“ Yes," replied Ihe fair pastor.
“ W ell— w ell— I'd—er— like
to get
married.”
“T o get married? Very well. I can
marry you." said the- miuistress en
couragingly.
“ Oh, hut I've got a girl already,”
was the discoim rting reply.
Domestic Tragedy.
"H enrietta," said Mr. Meekton, “ you
never ask me to water ihe rubber tree
or pul the eat out any more.”
“ It has been attended to. Leonidas."
“ And you don't mind how tunny
cigarettes 1 smoke nor how late I stay
out at night.”
•
“ I consider you able to take care of
yourself.”
“ Henrietta, many a home has been
wrecked because of ambition nud busi
ness preoccupation.
You have grown
to be so Interested In woman suffrage
I don’t believe you care what Incomes
of m e !"
TRAGEDY TURNS •
INTO ROMANCE
Chief Figures in Sensational Epi
sode in Chicago Are Quiet
ly Married.
COMES AS SURPRISE
Man and Woman W ere Prom inently
Mentioned In One of the Most Re
markable Tragediee of the
Year— Both Exonerated.
Chicago.— Ruth Wood, twenty-flve-
year-old bookkeeper, who w hs found
leaning over the dead body o f Samuel
T. A. Loftls, wealthy diamond broker.
I d his palatial No, ib aide apartment,
was married tw o weeks Inter In Wau
kegan to Roy M. Shayne, advertising
salesman, whose name was linked with
hers In the w idely heralded tragedy.
The marriage comes a surprise to
both relatives and friends o f the cou
ple. They made no announcement o f
their Intentions, but slipped quietly
from the city.
The first announcement cmne In a
telegram to Miss W ood’s m other:
“ W e are married. Both very happy.
On our way to a quiet resting place.”
the message read. It was signed “ Roy
and Ruth.”
»♦
Romance Old— Y et Young.
The romance of the pair Is scarcely
two months old —and yet lias Insted
over a decade o f years. »Then Roy
Shayue wus manager o f Ills fattier’»
business, the John T. Shayne com
pany. dealers In furs.
Ruth wns a
typist, barely out o f school.
She
worked for the firm nnd Shayne be
came attracted to her.
Later she left his employ and for
ten years did not see hlin. Then, some
weeks ngo, the fates which had de
creed their participation in one o f the
most sensational “ stories” o f the yetu
brought them together again.
They
met at the Edgewater Beueb hotel,
where Ruth was employed.
Shayne became devoted to her, and
met her dally at her home. H e Intro
duced her to Samuel T. A. Loftls,
Coins Memorialize Pilgrims.
Models for the Pilgrim half dollurs
to be issued by the treasury depart
ment In commemoration o f the ter
centenary anniversary o f the landing
of the Pilgrim s were brought to
Washington the other day by William
Carroll H ill o f Boston, secretary of
the Pilgrim Tercentenary commission
of Massachusetts, and deposited with
Ray Baker, director o f the mint.
The models are the work o f Cyrus
E. Dallln, the sculptor, and the de
signs have been approved by the com
mission.
The coin w-ill bear on one side- the
head and shoulders of a typical P il
grim Intended to represent Governor
Bradford, with his history o f Ply
mouth colony under his arm, and on
the reverse side a representation of
the Mayflower. The entire Issue of
¡100,000 coins lias been assigned to the
commission, which will
distribute
them through the National Shawmnt
bank of Boston. National banks In
the principal cities o f the country will
have nn opportunity, through the
Shawmnt. to obtain an allotment of
the coins for their respective districts.
The Experiment.
There Is a story told concerning a
careful mother whose three children
horrified her one day by producing for
her Inspection three exceedingly bil
ious-looking toffee apples.
“ T hey’re very pretty, my dears,” she
lied bravely. “ But really you mustn’t
eat them. I've heard o f little children
dying through eating colored toffee ap
ples."
Then she took the sweetmeats away
and put them out o f reach— as she
thought— on a shelf I d h e r dressing
room.
T ie Imagined that would do the
trick; hut early next morning she
heard a sound out on the landing, and,
going to see who was astir so early,
found Elsie trotting along the passage.
“ What are you doing, dear?” she
asked. “ It’s not six o’clock yet."
“ Going to see If Lick and Arthur are
dead yet." replied the elght-year-old
miss. “ I'm cot.”
Potato Salad.— Slice all o f the
Made to SuiL
follow ing ingredients thin : Three small
T o the Human Race— What bolls !
Finley P. Dunne— “Mr. D ooley"—
cucumbers, three stalks o f celery, ten
laid down tils gorgeous Sunday maga
small boiled potatoes, four hard cooked were to poor old patient Job.
zine section.
eggs.
Arrange In layers, sprinkling
T o Men o f Science1—! ) ----- Judge.
"It -ays here,” he observed, “ that
each layer with minced onion. I’ our
a western scientist Is at work trying
over the above boiled dressing and
to transform a black man Into a white
let stand to season.
FARM JOURNAL SAYS:
man. and It says, by Jingo, that the
Pineapple Salad.— Mix
pineapple,
diced, with equal parts o f diced cel , \flio ventures to lend loses money experiment Is going to be a complete
success."
ery and half the quantity o f blanched and friend,
Mr. Dunne nodded thoughtfully.
—
and shredded almonds. Serve In nests v
“ Wonderful," he said. “ Wonderful !
A
rolling >Sliamrock gathers no
o f head lettuce with mayonnaise dress
And yet.
come to think about It.
ing served In the shell o f a small pine Mossroses.
they've been doing the same thing for
apple. garnished with perfect leaves
a great many years by means o f white
Don't stop to argue the right of way
taken from the top.
wash."
Cheese Ball*.— Tak e Neufchatel or with a skunk.
any cream cheese, add cream, chopped
Silent Embarrassment.
The man who can bottle up his tern- i
chives and blanched almonds with a
“ Nobody taiks about the bathers'
per
is
a
corker.
little chopped pepper.
Make Into
costumes any more.”
small balls, arrange on lettuce and
"N o," replied the beach coostable
T h e crooked stick la at the farther j
serve with boiled dressing or mayon
"They've got to be so Improper you
end
o
f
the
wood.
naise.
dasti't let on you noticed 'em."
Against the coming o f midwinter, a
new lot o f coata, fo r lucky little girls,
have come to light In the shops. I f
they ever get close enough to Jack
Frost to apeak to him their wearers
will be sure to laugh In his face fo r it
will take bis bitterest mood to prove
him an enemy to their comfort. These
~oata are most often o f thick, soft
woolly cloths made douhle-breanted
ind having the coziest o f collars. Rome
of them look as I f M ary’s faithful
lamb had been skinned and Its pelt
converted Into a coat without going
through the hands o f the spinners and
weavers. Lovely and cozy describes
:hem and they are, <Jt course, thg prod-
act o f the looms which flo miracles
with wools. The little coats o f thick
cloths are plain w ith Inset pockets
ind sleeves’ that reach to the knuckles,
to that hands thrust Into pockets are
Entirely lost sight of. They are mnde
with turnover collars and narrow belts
) f the material and they are long
enough to reach below the knees.
T here are some pretty coata o f vel
veteen lined with silk. These are
sometimes made with blouse and skirt
tnd sometimes straight. Cuffs and
very wide muffler collars o f fur fabric
with deep set-lo pockets show them
-quaI to battling with the cold, even
though they are not aa sturdy looking
wealthy diamond dealer. That night
they announced thetr engagement at a
dinner given by Loftls.
Girl Met Loftls by Appointment.
Six days later Loftlh called Miss
W ood at the hotel.
“ Come to my apartment. I want to
talk to you about Roy's future,” was
his message.
Miss Woods went.
Loftls met her at the door dressed
only In pajamas.
Drinks followed.
Five hours later 8hayne, awaiting her
arrival at her mother's home, received
as the woolly coats. Besides these a pbone call. It was Ruth.
there are many plush coats made lik e i
‘Coine and get me. I am at Loftls"
the w oolly ones, usually In dark colors hc,ne! And hurry 1" waa the message.
with plush collars that imitate heaver
Shayne went.
and buttons covered wIth beaver plush.
An hour later officers caine rush
They are ns warm as the woolly coata ing to the house.
L oftls lay dead on
und as dressy as the velvet ones. the floor. Shayne was awaiting. Miss
Finally, there are fur coats for little
Wood had fled.
folks. These days one cannot even
Shuyne refused at first to. tell her
name— but flnnlly consented.
Both
whisper “ fu rs" without saying “ money”
Both were grilled.
in a loud tone o f voice, so only little , were arrested.
rich girls w ill find themselves wearing j Both obtained “ scare heads” In the
coata that are made o f pelts that once j papers and both faced the searching
(lances of officlnfs and spectators at
defended small friends o f thelrn against
the cold. Rahblta. muskrats anlt squir a coroner’ s Jury. Th eir story wns s
Anil
rels linve been sacrificed to make warm 24-hour sensation o f Chicago.
coata fo r the small girls, white bnnnlea both were exonerated.
fo r the tiniest ones and Just plain rnb- (
Babe's Appeal Touches Father.
bits fo r glris aa big aa the little miss j
New Castle, I’ a.—Contentment pre
pictured. The shaw! collar looks aa
If It were sealskin but It la not. Motile vails In the home o f Betty Jane Reno,
Cottontail furnished the fur and the nnd her brothers. Jack nnd Ralph, ai
New Castle, Pa.
furrier dyed It. I f Is not prettier or
Mr. Reno, who was In Cleveland,
more com fortably than the other coats,
but It requires much more work to read Betty’s letter to the paper, and
make It— and thereby hangs the tale ( wns touched by the appeal. “ I was
o f Its tong price. Such a coat coats a Just gelng to work.” he wrote home to
his wife, “ and saw B etty’s letter In
little more than a hundred dollars.
the paper. 1 simply couldn’t work. I
had no Idea how the kiddles would
suffer.”
He forwarded a money order with
the letter, und stated that he would
return and "play square" with the
fam ily be bad deserted.